Dec. 15

Nicholas Shaheen, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Esophageal Disease and Swallowing will present "Evolving Concepts in Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Cancer" at this week's CGIBD Research Seminar.

Weili Lin, PhD, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Lin was cited for his outstanding contributions to the development and translation of MR functional neuroimaging.

The last issue of Vital Signs for the 2011 year will go out early next week, on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Vital Signs will not be released the week of Dec. 26. If you have announcements that need to go out before Jan. 5, please be sure to submit them by Tuesday, Dec. 20 so that we can include them in our next issue. Thank you and happy holidays!